Poderis

Poderis

• Poderis
  Type: Terrestrial
  Temperature: Temperate
  Atmosphere: Type I (breathable)
  Hydrosphere: Moist
  Gravity: Standard
  Terrain: Archipelago chains of mesas
  Length of Day: 10 standard hours
  Length of Year: 77 local days
  Sapient Species: Human
  Starports: Limited Services
  Population: 17 million
  Planet Function: Colony
  Government: Imperial Governor
  Tech Level: Space
  Major Exports: None
  Major Imports: Food, medicine, high technology
  

System: Poderis system
Sector: Orus sector
Region: Inner Rim

• Poderis can be described by a variety of terms, though "marginal" seems the most accurate. Virtually no one has ever heard of the small colony planet. Technically, the colony should have simply been declared a failure and relocated decades ago, but the stubborn nature of the colonists — a stubbornness on a par with the Svivreni — has managed to keep this small planet going. The combination of its disorienting 10 hour days, unusual geography and violent winds have made the planet a singularly difficult location to survive in.
  Poderis has a nearly perpendicular axial tilt, creating terrible winds (comparable to hurricane levels) during the planet's spring and autumn. The "lowland-slough ecology" and erosion patterns of Poderis have created the planet's unusual land masses: towering mesas lie in archipelagos dotting the planet's large oceans.
  For the protection of the settlements perched atop the mesas, huge wind barriers have been constructed. They are angled slabs of hull-strength starship metal that act as windbreaks.
  Grand Admiral Thrawn used Poderis as a lure f or Jedi Luke Skywalker, who was led to believe that Poderis was a possible transfer point for the Empire's clone traffic. Poderis is also a drop-off or pickup location for smugglers, though a recently increased Imperial military presence has curtailed much of the illicit flow of goods.